Meet Princess Tiana: the Race Industry's worst nightmare. She's a strong, smart, hardworking young black woman who takes no prisoners and believes hard work is the only way to get ahead.

Today, a few of us went to see Disney’s “Princess & the Frog”.

It is an interesting, but not terribly good movie, but one we feel is incredibly important in so very many ways.

This won’t be a review, but we’re breaking this post here so that if you don’t want to know what happens in the movie, you won’t read any further (though, if you have not been in a coma for several decades, you should be able to identify and anticipate the Disney formulaic flourishes used in the movie, without even seeing it).

The most interesting thing about “Princess and the Frog” (hereafter, PatF) is how loudly, FREQUENTLY, it looks directly at the black community and tells it to get off its a**, work hard, stop blaming others for their problems, and take ownership of their lives.

Honestly, it beats this drum over and over again, like an after school special telling kids not to take candy from strangers or do drugs in the bathroom between classes.

The lead character, Tiana, says over and over and over again that the only way she’s going to make anything of herself is to work hard.  She saves up every penny she makes, instead of spending it going out drinking and dancing, so she can start her own business.

At least five separate times, she literally looks at the audience and says, “Work hard.  Get out of bed and go to work.  Stop being lazy.  Stop blaming other people for your problems.  Find a goal and go work towards it”.

It’s brilliant.

We think, if this is viewed enough in black households, that the next generation to grow up with this film as a cherished part of their childhood will be completely immune to the Race Industry’s siren call of sloth, greed, and grievance-mongering.

Tiana is the kind of young black woman we’ve long been friends with.  She reminds us, quite literally, of the hard-working, bright, wonderful black friends we have.  She is a fantastic new character for Disney’s pantheon.

The film itself, however, is middling.

Watching it, we kept thinking, “this could have been really GREAT” if only Disney had tried harder.  In many places, it seemed that whole scenes were cut out for one reason or another, and subplots and elements of the story felt excised…where we believe the Race Industry, in the form of people like Sharpton, stepped in during focus groups and told Disney to remove this or that.

When we originally heard about this film in production, Tiana was supposed to have a younger sister, who we heard was supposed to be very lazy and spoiled.  It feels like that character was cut from the film, as she’d be too much of a contrast with hardworking Tiana…in a Highlights for Children, Goofus & Gallant sort of way.  It would have been marvelous, though, if Tiana was seen working hard, with a goal, blaming no one, while her sister “Henrietta”, rolled around on the floor crying and wailing that everyone was out to get her, and that the reason she was getting nowhere in life was because everyone was holding her back.  But, that would have been too on the nose, too obvious a slam at Sharpton, Gates, Jackson, Eric Holder, Spike Lee, John Lewis, James Clyburne, and the host of other race-baiters.

As it is, we have no idea how Disney got this movie passed the Race Industry censors:  we imagine a great many little girls, and quite a few little boys, going home to their parents and asking them why they don’t work as hard as Tiana and her family…why they don’t have goals…why they don’t want to open their own businesses instead of crying about the government not giving them everything they want.

We hope there are lots of awkward moments in homes prompted by Tiana’s addition to the Disney princess line.

The character, honestly, has the potential to be the Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Race Industry’s blood-sucking fiends.

Work hard.  Never stop working hard.  Never let anything hold you back.  They just kept hammering that, and hammering that, and hammering it some more.

Loved every minute of it.

Tiana worked two jobs, while working on her dream of opening her own restaurant in her spare time.  People who don’t even have one job are going to be embarrassed when their children see Tiana as a role model.  That embarrassment is much-deserved and a long time coming.

The film is actually interesting enough for a more detailed and complete review from us, as it touches on a great many interesting themes.  The villain, Dr. Facilier, is the spitting imagine of our current president, Dr. Utopia, in looks, mannerism, and motives.  It’s staggering this got passed the Race Industry, too.

Dr. Facilier is a skinny, effeminate, charismatic light-skinned black man sharply dressed who appears from the shadows and promises the gullible and naive everything they’ve ever dreamed of, but never explains how much it will cost.  It’s never clear what his real motives are, except that he wants to enrich himself.  He’s allied with nebulous villains cloaked in darkness, with the largest one bearing a creepy resemblance to George Soros himself.  When challenged, he summons virtual minions existing between worlds to race out and do his bidding — very reminiscent of Dr. Utopia’s Cyber Team of hackers, bloggers, and Daily Kos/Huffington Post liberals.

Several Dr. Facilier scenes appear to be missing…and his end comes much too fast, and much to anticlimactically…so it really does feel like the Race Industry forced Disney to scale SOMETHING back with him.  Unlike other truly memorable Disney villains, like Jaffar, Ursula, Maleficent, etc., Dr. Falicier doesn’t have the depth of motive or exposition to establish what he’s really up to, where he comes from, and what he wants to do to the main characters and why.  Does Facilier want money?  Does he want immortality and power?  Does he want some lofty position?  Who knows.

That’s what makes us feel like Disney had something in there explaining all this, but it was cut out.  There are two points in the film where the action jumps to a totally different location, with no explanation, that feels like 15 minutes or so was cut.  A lot of Dr. Facilier’s character development could have happened in those minutes.

It’s our sincere hope this movie becomes a true classic — despite it’s faults, and the fact that it feels rushed and incomplete in places.  The message it’s directing to the black community to start working hard and stop looking for magical handouts is TREMENDOUSLY important.  And the subversive effect Dr. Facilier could have on Dr. Utopia’s poll numbers can’t be overstated:  if people pick up on the resemblance, and start associating one with the other, they will rip to shreds the carefully constructed MSM image of Dr. Utopia as a divine Lightbringer…and not the Shadow Man he truly is.